Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of data from reaching the system. While hardware firewalls offer ...

This chapter looks at the management of firewalls. From the perspective of the small office/home user, the firewall is a single device that protects the home network from malicious traffic—it keeps ...

Firewalls have been slowly changing over the years as their network architectures have been evolving. Firewalls are becoming more decentralized and becoming increasingly virtualized. As firewalls move ...